{"id":1483,"date":"2012-06-18T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T20:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2012-06-18T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T20:52:26","slug":"my-elephant-keeps-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"My Elephant Keeps Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That title may seem cryptic but it really isn&#8217;t just take it for what it is, &#8220;My elephant keeps moving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine just came back from a trip that took her through India and Nepal. She was gone for 2 and a half weeks and was greatly missed. When she came back we were regaled by stories of her adventure and I was presented with and small stone elephant. I wanna say it is made of unpolished jade but it may just be soap stone but whatever it is made from I love it.\u00c2\u00a0I received this at work and when I got to my desk I placed it on top of my right monitor on the left hand side.<\/p>\n<p>And that is where it stayed for a few days.<\/p>\n<p>I would sit writing, googling, emailing, and when my mind would wonder it would become the object of my daydreams. It would be taking it&#8217;s slow arduous walk across the desert, spraying water in the air as it refreshed itself in a small oasis, or reaching its long trunk into the trees for some food.<\/p>\n<p>But the other day as I looked up it was gone. At first I was startled but was quickly relieved to find it on the top of my left monitor on the right hand side. I chalked it up to someone maybe knocked it off and placed it where they thought it was.<\/p>\n<p>But since then the elephant seems to making its way across the top of the monitor. It is nearing the chattering teeth sticker at the center of the monitor. I don&#8217;t know who is moving it or why but some how this phenomenon has intrigued me, as you can tell because I am writing about it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that it intrigues me because I want to find out who is moving it, and that &#8220;who&#8221; would be the simplest\u00c2\u00a0explanation\u00c2\u00a0for its travels, but because I have too much imagination or have seen too many movies (I am unsure which is affecting which). I would like to, or should I say prefer to, find that the\u00c2\u00a0pachyderm\u00c2\u00a0is moving itself. As with movies like <em>Small Soldiers<\/em>, <em>The Indian in the Cupboard<\/em>, and <em>Toy Story<\/em>, it is probably coming to life and having some sort of marvelous adventure when people aren&#8217;t around or paying attention.\u00c2\u00a0Maybe it has an\u00c2\u00a0endearing voice, a heart of gold, and once in a while says something profound.<\/p>\n<p>But who knows? I may never find out, I will have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/pachyderm trek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-757 aligncenter\" title=\"My Tiny Pachyderm\" src=\"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/pachyderm trek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at him go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/icon-copy-profile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18\" title=\"icon-copy-profile\" src=\"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/icon-copy-profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a>Tra<\/p>\n<p><em>Be Tea Dubs: If you are keeping track that was post 300!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That title may seem cryptic but it really isn&#8217;t just take it for what it is, &#8220;My elephant keeps moving.&#8221; A friend of mine just came back from a trip that took her through India and Nepal. She was gone for 2 and a half weeks and was greatly missed. When she came back we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}